SIMUL8 Online Workshop - The Kroger Company

Discover how the Kroger Company use SIMUL8 to help reduce queuing times to 30 seconds at checkouts

The Kroger Company is at the forefront of incorporating new technology into improving the customer shopping experience. They "model" solutions before implementation to reduce the development risk.

In our recent online workshop Jim Holtman discusses how various processes are simulated using SIMUL8 at The Kroger Co, including the check out areas, distribution centers and the loading/delivery areas. The presentation will also include a demonstration of one simulation that was developed to help people understand how some of Kroger's operations work.

Kroger

Watch the on Demand workshop and access the presentations below

Project Spotlight The Kroger Company

The Power of SIMUL8

Presenter Biography:

Jim Holtman

Mr. Holtman is one of the original members of the Operations Research group at Kroger where he has helped to train the current staff. He has been responsible for laying out the design of the Kroger distribution centers to provide a better presentation to the stores, saving time in restocking the store. He helped in the analysis of the QueVision system which has reduced customer wait time at cashiers to 30 seconds.

Jim started using SIMUL8 in 1994 when he was doing consulting projects on computer performance and SIMUL8 was used to create models of the system.

Prior to Kroger he previously worked at AT&T Bell Labs where he is a Bell Labs Fellow for creating the Current Best Practice for System Architecture reviews, and the contribution to the architecture of several operation support systems. In his 50 year IT career he has shot down missiles having written part of the real-time operating system for the Safeguard Antiballistic Missile system.

His tagline is “what is the problem you are trying to solve”.